## [Before November 17, 1914]

[90] And now a couple of notes in response to your questions. Our little Edgar (Mush) was born in 1847 (but I am not entirely certain), died in late 1855; on November 5, 1849 was born "little Fox ('Foxchen')" Heinrich and died when he was about two years old. My little sister Francisca, born in 1851, died while still a child, approximately at age 11...*

[91] Moor's father (Moor was in great admiration of his father) was, by contrast, a true "Frenchman" of the eighteenth century. He knew his Voltaire and Rousseau by heart, as the old Westphalian knew his Homer and Shakespeare². And Moor's remarkable universality was, undoubtedly, in no small degree the result of this "hereditary" influence...

[92] You ask whether my grandfather was baptized already before Moor's birth? I think so, but cannot assert this with certainty. The reason why he, a Voltairian of the eighteenth century, subjected himself to such a ceremony, was that otherwise he would not have received permission to practice law. And he was already a lawyer when Moor—the second child—was born. You probably know that Moor's mother, née Pressburg, was a Dutch Jewess. In the early sixteenth century the "Pressburgs"—their surname derives from the name of the city Pressburg—moved to Holland, where the men of the Pressburg family were rabbis for several centuries. Moor's mother spoke Dutch; to the very end of her life she spoke German unsatisfactorily and with difficulty...

*Translation from German*

# ANNOTATIONS ON THE PAMPHLET BY P. MASLOV "ECONOMIC CAUSES OF THE WORLD WAR"
## [1915, after January]

[22] The interests of various capitalist groups having dealings with Russia as a money and commodity market are not only different from one another, but even opposite.

Money capital, lending Russia money, is not at all interested in its economic and political backwardness. It needs secured payment of interest, and economic development of the country is only advantageous, as it ensures this payment. On the contrary, foreign manufacturers importing goods into the country are not at all interested in its economic development, in the development of manufacturing industry within it. On the contrary, Russia's economic and political backwardness is one of the conditions of the economic predominance of the country exporting products of factory production.

Thanks to its close geographical proximity to Russia and in part thanks to the policy of Bismarck and his successors, who threw Russian government bonds off the Berlin stock exchange, Germany, far more than France, Belgium, and even England, was bound to Russia by commercial relations rather than by outlays of capital within Russia; that is, Russia was for Germany far more a colony for the import of factory goods and export of raw materials than for the export of German capital from Germany.

This in significant degree determined the international relations among the enumerated countries. The colossal growth of Germany's capital and productive forces required either an outflow of capital or the sale of goods.

The growth of production required chiefly the sale of goods.

# ANNOTATIONS ON THE PAMPHLET BY G. LAUFENBERG AND F. WOLFHEIM "DEMOCRACY AND ORGANIZATION." HAMBURG, 1915
## [No earlier than February 1915]

**PREFACE**

[3—7] Our first joint pamphlet "Imperialism and Democracy" was intended to serve the self-orientation of the party and the International through the investigation of imperialistic anti-militarist expenditures. On the other hand, to a certain degree the sale of machines presupposes the development of the productive forces of the country.